Frank Lampard has won the battle for a new five-year contract with Chelsea.

When Chelsea return from their tour to the Far East and Russia the England star will be told he has clinched the five-year deal he has demanded, worth £150,000 a week.

The 30-year-old appears to have won the game of contract Call My Bluff. A senior club source said: "There will be no movement on the money but the length of the deal is likely to be increased to meet Frank's demands. Hopefully when we return from the tour the issue can finally be put to bed."

Yet some senior executives at the club still feel Lampard is merely using the contract negotiations as an excuse to pave the way for a move to Inter Milan, who announced yesterday that they still hope to sign him.

The Chelsea source added: "It does seem a bit odd that Frank is holding out for another 12 months when a very favourable deal has been put to him. And by offering him the extra year at least we will know once and for all whether this has been the main obstacle preventing him from committing his future to the club."

The new deal will be worth around £37million to Lampard. Inter, now being coached by former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, have made three failed bids for Lampard this summer.

Meanwhile Didier Drogba, who has missed the tour through injury, wants his Chelsea future sorted out.

And he has refuted suggestions that he has feigned injury to skip the trip to the Far East.

Drogba said: "This next week will be key in terms of my future. And I am currently injured. People who say I am not don't know me at all because I always want to play.

"I have even missed the chance to play at the Olympics.

"As for my future at Chelsea, well I have a contract with the club that is clear. But my agents will have a meeting in London and then it will be known once and for all."

Both AC Milan and Barcelona have lodged interest in the 30-year-old striker. And in a further dramatic twist last night it emerged that Drogba had delayed penning the last chapter of his autobiography until his future is resolved.

He added: "It is true that the big clubs in Europe want me but this does not depend on me but on the Chelsea directors. I want to know the definitive decision this week.

"Things changed in the summer with the arrival of Luiz Felipe Scolari. He spoke with me and told me he was depending on me this year. I have worked well up until the injury and now he is in China I have not spoken to him since."

Drogba's agent Pierre Frelot merely added to the uncertainty, saying: "Didier is a Chelsea player but there is a 50 per cent chance that he will stay and 50 per cent that he will leave."